Latest posts by John Kennedy from August, 2008
China: V for Volleyball and…
..Victory! Photoblogger Derrick Story shares some of his photos taken late last week of players from the women's teams from China and a couple other countries: “captured with a Canon 5D, with a 70-200mm Canon L using a matching 1.4X multiplier.”
China: Boxing heavyweights!
MySpacer Dr. O spent last night watching the super heavyweight boxing matches. Algeria's coach got kicked out. Legendary Cuban boxing star Teófilo Stevenson was there! See it all in Dr. O's video and photos and: “The last big kick of the night was the Chinese Zhang Zhilei – all 6'7″...
China: Sneak peek inside Athletes’ Village
Still at the Catch Up Lady‘s blog, we had to give big props to this post too, ‘Bikes in the Athletes’ Village: An Olympic Revolution’: “One of the best “insider” stories that came out of the afternoon was the inside scoop on the collapsible bikes that all the athletes’ are...
China: What The Olympics Are Really About
Talk to Catch Up Lady blogger for a vivid sense of not just the mood in and around the Olympics, but with her photos and video taken at the Water Cube before and during the heat yesterday in which Michael Phelps‘ won his sixth gold medal, the sounds and sights...
China: Pick your truth on He Kexin's age
People are calling for bone testing to find the truth regarding He Kexin‘s age, Life 2.0 blogger Isaac Mao writes: ‘Forget that, we've already won and lost all the face there is to win or lose. The IOC is playing stupid, so let them have it.’ So just what is...
China: Fake news plagues Chinese sports reports
So much speculation these past few days on the ages of some of the girls on China's Olympic gymnastics team, specifically He Kexin and a fair amount of references to keep it going. Famous Chinese sports writer and Bullog blogger Wang Xiaoshan has posted a dramatically-titled piece, ‘Fake news kills’,...
China: Olympic cheerleaders~
Via the Time China blog we find Youtuber selegant's footage of the cheerleading routine during yesterday's USA-Nigeria football match. One commenter writes: “That's the Sichuan Cats. You need to win tough competitions to volunteer at Beijing.” Do check out the Related Videos there.
China: Citizen reporter Zuola carted off
Less than an hour ago, prominent Chinese citizen blogger was visited at home by authorities and driven off. Fortunately, he had Twitter on hand and was able to get the word out as he was being detained.
China: Lip-Syncing. Big deal.
Is the Yang Peiyi incident being blown out of proportion by Western media? See what Kaiser Kuo has to say on that at the Ogilvy8 @ Beijing Olympics blog.
China: Opening ceremony deceptions continue to disappoint
This is starting to get a bit brutal; news today that the children seen in the harmonious 56 ethnic minorities—China's version of a multicultural policy—portion of the Olympics opening ceremony were actually all Han. Writes Twitter user @FrankYu: “China's Opn Cer. is facing a loss of credibility on the scale...
China: Olympics as mass ritual, rite of passage, or just one big party?
Is Zhang Yimou China’s Leni Riefenstahl, or an artist who has turned mass spectacle ritual into a modern art form? Haiyan Lee delves into this question, and others, at The China Beat.
China: How old is He Kexin?
While authorities state she is of Olympic regulation age, China Digital Times‘ Xiao Qiang looks at one of several sources that put He Kexin‘s age at around fourteen.
China: Faking the Olympic opening ceremony, at what expense?
The buzz on Tuesday was that two major components of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony had been faked, leaving a very bad taste in many bloggers' mouths.
China: Citizen reporter to be deported
The day after live-vlogging the rare phenomenon that is a loud Free Tibet protest in the middle of Tiananmen Square, Noel ‘noneck’ Hidalgo has just tweeted that he is to be deported. Guess he wasn't using Tor.
China: More foreigners protest, aided by 2.0 tools
Saturday saw another Free Tibet protest in Beijing, this time right from the middle of Tiananmen square. Qik.com vlogger noneck was at the scene to live-stream the protest, but that's not all that's going on right now..
China: Tweeting the Olympics
Have you seen the GVO Olympics Twitter account? Check it out for an idea of what's being tweeted about the Olympics in real time.
China: Pollution levels around Olympic venues
Off the Map blogger Sean Gorman and friends have taken Chinese government pollution data and made a mashup map of pollution levels in the areas surrounding Olympic venues in Beijing. Code to embed the map here.
China: Second Olympic terrorism threat video released
Following last month's Olympics terrorism threat/confession video claiming to be from a group called the Turkestan Islamic Party, another video has been released. Judging from the look of it, this clip will be even less convincing than the one before it. See the Xinjiang-based The New Dominion and The Opposite...
China: More Opening Ceremony sneaked footage
An indignant French-writing journalist has, along with a lengthy rant, posted video taken this week during an opening ceremony rehearsal inside the Bird's Nest. Hong Kong entertainer Jackie Chan and Tibetan singer Han Hong can be seen on stage. Note that in the comments one reader shares the most popular...
China: Photos from morning Tibet protest
After getting a global scoop with streaming footage of the Olympic Stadium Tibet protest this morning, vlogger Noel noneck Hidalgo has now uploaded to Flickr some photos taken at the time which better illustrate how the situation was handled.
China: Darfur activist has visa revoked
Twitter user and Team Darfur spokesperson Emma Stone Mackinnon has just tweeted: “China revoked Joey Cheek's visa just now…no links yet, press release just went out.” More on Joey Cheek at Wikipedia.
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